BooksWe love books. Tell us about your favourite books and authors, and why they are so good. And while you're at it - having dined out for years on the time I threw Dan Brown out of a train window - tell us who to avoid.
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Scaryduck LIKES EGG, Thu 5 Jan 2012, 13:40)
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Read it on holiday this yearWell, part of it. I got about half way through it and wasn't enjoying it at all. Maybe the good stuff happens after then, but I found it a humourless slog of a book and deleted it from my Kindle as I lay on the beach. I know loads of people love that book though, so maybe I was missing something.
(, Fri 6 Jan 2012, 12:24, 1 reply)
I think it's his charactercoming through on the page. I warmed to him a lot, laughed a lot, and kind of wanted to be David Niven by the time I'd finished it. And the bits about being in the Army and the frequent stupid behaviour to get through it all were great. I am also quite interested in Hollywood in the 30s and 40s, which probably helps.
(, Fri 6 Jan 2012, 12:27, closed)
There you areI'm not particularly interested in that era and read the book as I'd heard it was brilliant, but just didn't warm to it or Niven himself. I found the whole section in the army pretty tedious and by the time I packed it in (again, about half way through the book) I hadn't laughed at all. Says a lot that the other books I'd read on holiday were all around 600 pages long and I read each one in a day and a bit, but after three days I was half way through "Moon". I guess it just wasn't for me.
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